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It’s such a cliché, isn’t it: newspaper columnists droning on about giving up alcohol in January. So instead, I’m going to drone on about giving up alcohol in February.

I’ve stopped drinking. I don’t know how long for. I do love going to all these restaurants, but I was starting to get flabby and heavy. I both felt and looked like a bin bag filled with clay. I needed to live a bit more healthily. And since I couldn’t very well write 1,000 words a week about steamed broccoli, I decided to stick with the rich food but cut out the booze....